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her wishful attempts to change her husband's bad habits
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But this wishful vision of a more democratic future proved naive.
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2020
The wishful hope that the criminals in charge of the Venezuelan regime can somehow be persuaded to accede to their own ruin is just that—a hope—and certainly not a proper basis for diplomatic action.
—Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
But the road from wishful innovation to transformative reality has yet to be constructed.
—Peter Andersen, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Connected by a complex sound design that occasionally collapses time and space, scenes of absurd mundanity give way to the fantasy of fiction, its triangle of poets, artists, and actors motivated equally by wishful dreaming and comic, everyday neuroses.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
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Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2020
The wishful hope that the criminals in charge of the Venezuelan regime can somehow be persuaded to accede to their own ruin is just that—a hope—and certainly not a proper basis for diplomatic action.
—Moisés Naím, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2021
But the road from wishful innovation to transformative reality has yet to be constructed.
—Peter Andersen, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Connected by a complex sound design that occasionally collapses time and space, scenes of absurd mundanity give way to the fantasy of fiction, its triangle of poets, artists, and actors motivated equally by wishful dreaming and comic, everyday neuroses.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
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“Wishful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wishful. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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